all the world’s a wiki
I toy with the thought of converting this here website to MediaWiki (which my host supports), as I am more efficient at editing there than at writing raw HTML in vi.
The wiki’s first articles would be:
- Two-dimensional design
- Hyperbolic tilings
- Arrangements of the color gamut in the plane
- Curve-fitting
- Three-dimensional design
- Ray-tracing
- Solid printing
- Posthuman speculation
- Political speculation
- Linguistics
- Diachronics
- Writing
- Conlang
I’d continue to report new thoughts here, and then integrate them into appropriate articles. I wonder whether MediaWiki and WordPress play well together. I’m not aware of any personal website that combines blog with wiki, but it seems unlikely that nobody does it.
And now I wonder whether a wiki on my home box would help me keep track of the little files I write as notes on this topic or that, and the PDFs that I download to read someday, and the
you can talk to me now
When I changed the site to HTTPS but didn’t change a corresponding setting in WordPress, comments were broken. Should be working now.
n-k-1
The blog “Degrees of Freedom”, which had been inactive for some time when last I looked at it, has vanished. James, do you still visit here?
that didn’t take long
Someone has snapped up my old unwanted domain to start a blog in (i think) Swedish.
link cautiously
Jonas discovered that, if you write a comment here with three links, you’ll be taken to a 403 page without explanation. I haven’t found the configuration setting that does this.
don’t trust the clock
I just noticed that, in the time shown for posts and comments, the month-number appears in place of the minutes. From the format settings it seems to be a WordPress bug. It’s not the host or PHP, because in WordPress admin pages the time is correct.
de-skinned
April 9 is CSS Naked Day, a concept amusing enough that I installed the WordPress plugin to comply with it. As I should have expected, it makes this blog rather less readable than it was before I converted from Blogger and learned enough CSS to make WordPress’s (then) default template less ugly. Back then, I used <h#> and <hr> tags for visual structure; whups, that’s all gone. Next time I fiddle with my Theme, I should give such things some attention. Meanwhile I’ll just turn off the Naked Day plugin.